I'm using what I presume to be the only/most popular JDBC for postgres (from http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download; the actual jar is jdbc7.0-1.1.jar -- please let me know if there are any others) but am a little concerned that its error reporting (via java SQL exceptions) seems to use only strings rather then setting the exceptions error code (vendor specific or XOPEN standard). I need to be able to catch SQLExceptions and convert them to my own, application specific exceptions ... I can even do this by parsing a string (though I would rather an error code), but I don't know how to reliably extract DB errors from the exceptions thrown by the postgres JDBC driver. Any suggestions, references or help would be greatly appreciate. Thanks, Sheer ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]